Catalog

Existentialism

Course Type:

REL

Code:

5940

Level:

Graduate

Credit Hours:

3

Schedule Type:

Lecture

Description:

(Also listed as PHL 5090.) Introduction to 20th century philosophical and literary movement. Emphasis on concrete existence and the passions over abstract rationality, conception of self as a product of radically free acts of self-creation, affirmation of uncertainty and absurdity as inescapable elements of the human condition, and rejection of traditional ethical systems.

Restrictions:

Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.